A moving and riveting epic novel--a family saga, spanning three generations and dealing with their dark and mysterious past, set in an Ethiopian, magical mountainous countryside, in a world of monkeys, goats and spirits.
Desta, a seven-year-old boy and Abraham, his middle-aged father, are on separate but parallel missions. The boy dreams of climbing one of the mountains that circle his home to touch the sky and run his fingers through the clouds. Abraham yearns to find his own long lost father. Each faces a series of obstacles and each ultimately realizes his dream, although not in the way he hoped.
In the center of this sweeping novel is a 2,800-year old Solomonic gold coin, a family heirloom that went missing along with Desta's vanished grandfather forty years earlier. A symbol of the family's financial success and personal pride, this coin is one of the reasons why Abraham grew up fatherless and why his mother abandoned her farmland estate and came to settle in an isolated, mountainous valley, setting the family saga in motion
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“An entrancing magic carpet ride to a far-off world. . . . This is a journey you don’t want to miss!” Stephen Holmes, novelist

About the Author

Getty Ambau is a graduate of Yale University. Although educated both in the natural and social sciences and has run his own businesses over the years, writing has been his inner calling. He has written books on health and nutrition which have sold internationally. DESTA is his first in a series of novels. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Rosario and a devoted terrier called Scruffy--perhaps not as devoted or self-sacrificing as Desta's pet and friend, Kooli.

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